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Continue reading →: From Exposé to Exile: Leviste’s Five-Month Business-Class Passport to SilenceFrom Dropping Cabral Files to Dropping Off the Radar: The Leviste Exit Strategy By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 31, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, picture this: a young congressman, fresh from selling solar dreams to become the nation’s youngest billionaire-turned-lawmake, suddenly morphs into the Philippines’ most prolific document-leaker. He waves…
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Continue reading →: “Several Lifetimes,” Said Fajardo — Translation: “I’m Not Spending Even One More Day on This Circus”Fajardo’s Final Lesson: You Can’t Fix a System That Rewards the People Breaking It By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 31, 2026 IN A country where the poor wade through floodwaters that rise faster than our leaders’ excuses, Rossana Fajardo’s resignation from the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI)—coupled with…
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Continue reading →: The Heroic Spirit-Savers of Landers: When the Flames Die, the Looting BeginsRemulla vs. the Liquor Looters: When Small Thieves Make Big Headlines By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 31, 2026 IN THE Philippines—a nation perpetually tested by disasters and undermined by opportunism—a massive fire ravaged the Landers Superstore in Quezon City’s Barangay Pasong Putik on January 28, 2026. Amid the…
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Continue reading →: Necromancy in Robes: Reviving Phantom Filings to Strangle ImpeachmentFrom Docket Graveyard to Constitutional Armor: A Judicial Horror Story By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 30, 2026 THE Supreme Court (SC) has spoken—again. In a unanimous 13-0 vote, the high tribunal denied the House of Representatives’ motion for reconsideration with finality on January 28, 2026, affirming that the…
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Continue reading →: Hide-and-Seek with a Kickback King: Zaldy Co’s Notary Ninja Moves Mock Philippine JusticeMedical Leave or Masterclass in Evasion? Co Turns Europe into His Personal Safe House By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 30, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round the flickering screen of cynicism. It’s your favorite subterranean scribe, Barok, here to drag another Philippine political farce into the harsh light of…
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Continue reading →: CHED’s Thirty-Year Siesta: How the “Higher” Education Watchdog Napped Through a National CatastropheDreaming of Excellence, Waking to Scandals: Corruption, Diploma Mills, and the Equity Snooze-Fest By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 29, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, let us not mince words today. The Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM 2) final report is not a polite suggestion. It is a death certificate…
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Continue reading →: De Facto Martial Law or De Facto Meltdown? Leviste’s P24-Billion Sob StoryWhen Your Solar Empire Implodes, Just Declare Yourself a Political Prisoner By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 2 9, 2026 LISTEN up, because we’re about to autopsy a political corpse still twitching with self-pity. Batangas First District Rep. Leandro Leviste—once billed as the solar wunderkind who would light up…
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Continue reading →: The Seduction of StatisticsBuild Better More, Feel Worse Sooner: The Marcos Miracle Nobody in the Barangay Can Afford By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2026 WHEN Palace Press Officer Claire Castro steps to the podium, the numbers arrive like clockwork: unemployment at 4.7% in 2025, down from the pandemic’s brutal 10.3%…
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Continue reading →: Remulla’s Billion-Dollar Bouncer: “No Cash, No Conversation” – The New Door Policy at the Palace of JusticePlunderers Welcome… Provided They Bring a Billion-Dollar “Sorry We Stole It” Gift Receipt By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2026 BEHOLD, Manila, the city that never sleeps—because someone is always counting someone else’s money. On January 27, 2026, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic…
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Continue reading →: The Stolen Growth: A Nation’s Receipt for Billions Pilfered, Leaving Us Poorer, Angrier, and Still Flooded25% Kickbacks: The Only Percentage That Actually Grew in 2025 By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2025 IF AN economy is a testament to a nation’s priorities, then the Philippines’ missed growth target for 2025 is less a technical failure and more a stolen receipt—evidence of billions pilfered…
